Cristobal Quijano

Cristobal Quijano was a Spanish soldier who served under Hernan Cortes during his conquest of the New World.

Biography
Cristobal Quijano was a Spanish captain, and he was one of Hernan Cortes' commanders during his conquest of Mexico in the 1520s. Cortes sent Friar Diego de La Coruna to accompany Quijano's men and help them with spreading Christianity to the Native Americans, although Quijano believed that, just as the Crusades had resulted in Muslim ideas entering the Christian world, the conversion of the Native Americans would never be complete. In 1526, he and his men attacked an Aztec sacrificial ceremony honoring the mother goddess Tonantzin, and they captured Topiltzin, whom they forcibly baptized as "Tomas" after discovering that he was an illegitimate son of Moctezuma.